I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

He hadn't spoken a word since they'd left the manor except to snap out directions, telling her which way to turn at a fork in the road, or ordering her to skirt a pothole. Even then she doubted if he would have minded much if she'd fallen the pothole, except that it would have slowed them down.

Cassandra Clare

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Victor Frankl

Farrah Fawcett had courage, she had strength, and she had faith.

Jaclyn Smith

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

Tadao Ando

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Divinity Sc

However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. However far it may expand, the progression inevitably rests on unequal power and airtight roles within the family.

Gloria Steinem

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men--the other 999 follow women.

Groucho Marx

I think one of the great historical contributions of science is to weaken the hold of religion. That's a good thing.

Steven Weinberg

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

Robert Browning

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

Clint Eastwood

My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.

Robert Carlyle

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.

Khalil Gibran